Elemental Succubi in the Horticulturati World

While most of the magic in my Horticulturati world are in the magic plants (and magic fungi), there are also a few magical creatures. The Greenies, for one – but we’ll get to those in a later post. (Buckle up – they’re weird!) One group of magic creatures that makes several appearances is the elemental

March Updates, Featuring Banter, Theft, and Charity

The bad news about March is that I haven’t written any words on The Atlas Brothers Break the Multiverse in three whole weeks. I miss my boys. The good news is that the reason I wasn’t writing Atlas Brothers was because I was writing a new short story for an LGBTQ+ charity anthology instead! That’s

The End of Another NaNoWriMo

We’ve reached the end of another November, and with it, the end of another National Novel Writing Month. And we arrived right in time for final exams, the end of the semester, and final grades – so if I’m a little MIA for the next couple of weeks, you’ll find me under that giant pile

The Hundred Names of Atiya Djinn – publication deets plus excerpt!

So, hey, did I mention I have a short story coming out in a new anthology early next year? The anthology, Written in the Wind, is a name-themed collection being published by Worldsmyths Publishing. And I really like the way my story came out, too. The title is “The Hundred Names of Atiya Djinn” and

The Frugal Wisdom of Autumn Leaves

I’ve been busy. 😅 And unfortunately, most of that busy-ness hasn’t been related to writing. (More on my writing activities below.) Honestly, it seems like just last week was the first of September, and here we are at October already. The weather is cooling. ❄️ Spookiness is in the air. 🎃 Leaves are starting to

Worldbuilding: The Thread Lifecycle

Since we have officially covered all of the (known) races of magic users in the Unworld Ecology series, I thought I would take a break this month from Cami and her friends to instead introduce a different worldbuilding topic: Thread. Thread is a fungus-like species from my short story “Into the Breaking Season,” which will

What’s Cooking?

Anyone else ever think about how writing a story is kind of like cooking? Or is that just me? 👩‍🍳 I love cooking (real food, not just stories). Baking, too. I learned both from my mom, and the way she taught me to cook was basically to look at a couple of recipes for inspiration,

Gilded Glass Virtual Book Launch!

My friends, have I mentioned how excited I am to have a story in this anthology? Because I am excited! Gilded Glass is such a cool mix of new fairy tales and dark modern myths, and I am so honored to be among its pages. My dark feminist fairy tale “The Silver King and the

Last year, I did something drastic…

Let me tell you a story Once upon a time, I thought I couldn’t write short stories. My ideas always seemed too big. Every time I tried, I either ended up with a 25,000 word novella or an unfinished fragment. That complete, compelling story arc in under 8000 words seemed so far out of my

A toddler, a scientist, and a writer walk into a blog post…

Here’s a question: What do toddlers, scientists, and creative writers all have in common? No, I promise this isn’t the opening to some kind of joke (a toddler, a scientist, and a writer walk into a bar… 😆). The thing that these three types of people have in common is something I’ve been thinking about